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...ever seen if you don't count the time myself and four other guys rented a motel room in North Carolina on the way back to Boston from Spring Break for the express purpose of watching the Harvard hockey team barely lose the National Championship to the Michigan State Spartans who were a faster and bigger team (the announcer said) something like Rambo Meets Dorothy Hamill (the announcer said) but then I don't remember much else of the game because we had stopped in Macon, Georgia and bought several bottles of homemade Georgia Peach Wine which tasted a little...

Author: By Daniel Vilmure, | Title: One Fine Night in Newton | 5/23/1986 | See Source »

...children, six of them boys. He has written that Islamic women are not to be kept in servitude; as if to demonstrate the point, his retinue has been known to include female bodygards toting submachine guns. He lives in a small boxcar of a house, no different / from the spartan homes of the other military men at the well-fortified Bab el- Azizia barracks. He keeps a tent outside, and it is underneath its cloth top that he appears to feel truly at home. He has a piece of bread and a glass of camel's milk for breakfast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gaddafi: Obsessed By a Ruthless, Messianic Vision | 4/21/1986 | See Source »

...Spartan Brass band broke into the ominous thump-thump, thump-thumping of the "Jaws" routine, much to the glee of the M's, S's and U's, who clapped their extended arms together, mimicking the Great White beast itself...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: One Brief Shining Moment | 3/31/1986 | See Source »

...with three minutes left in the game, Spartan forward Mike Donnelly slipped a shot into the Harvard...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: The Captain in Street Clothes | 3/31/1986 | See Source »

...Spartan and Crimson faces typify the reactions to Michigan State's 6-5 victory Saturday night in the Providence Civic Center, which robbed Harvard of its first NCAA team crown since the 1904 golf squad captured a national title. For complete coverage of the NCAA Championships, see pages one, three, eight and nine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Agony and The Ecstasy | 3/31/1986 | See Source »

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